AMERICAN PERSIMMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American persimmon mean? 

• AMERICAN PERSIMMON (noun)
  The noun AMERICAN PERSIMMON has 1 sense:

1. medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe

  Familiarity information: AMERICAN PERSIMMON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN PERSIMMON (noun)

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Meaning:

Medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American persimmon; Diospyros virginiana; possumwood

Hypernyms ("American persimmon" is a kind of...):

persimmon; persimmon tree (any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros)

Meronyms (parts of "American persimmon"):

persimmon (orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe)

Holonyms ("American persimmon" is a member of...):

Diospyros; genus Diospyros (a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood)